A beautiful and blessed Earth Day to you. Today I am honoring the earth by working with clay. What are you up to?I am also thinking about my garden up north and how I formed a deep connection to that soil and how much beauty and joy was offered in return. I cherished that land and it loved me back. I felt it and saw it. I wish that everyone could experience that sense of harmony and belonging to a place. I believe much of the mindless destruction of our planet would be reversed with this experience of mindfulness.Here are some pictures from last summer. I'm sorry about the spill over into my sidebar, but I'm anxious to embrace my clay and don't want to use this precious day on resizing pictures!
I'm sad to have left this garden that was nothing but a weedy patch of grass when I found it. I feel it waking and I am not there to tend it. So instead I'm turning to clay, temporarily my own patch of earth to tend, as it passes through my hands in transformation. I am entering into a conscious relationship with earth itself, a dialogue.
Here are 2 older posts on the relationship between the earth & spirit. This first is by Gartenfische (and is well worth a read for it beauty) and the second is mine.Viriditas. Venite, AdoremusThe Spiritual EarthHappy Earth Day!